DOYLE v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE

No. 208.

110 F.2d 157 (1940)

DOYLE v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

March 4, 1940.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas M. Wilkins, of Washington, D. C., for petitioners.

Samuel O. Clark, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., and Sewall Key and Joseph M. Jones, Sp. Assts. to Atty. Gen., for respondent.

Before SWAN, AUGUSTUS N. HAND, and PATTERSON, Circuit Judges.


PATTERSON, Circuit Judge.

The petitioners, husband and wife, filed joint income tax return for 1934. They filed their returns on a cash basis. The Commissioner determined that an alleged profit of $60,000 should have been included as income in that year, and gave notice of a deficiency in tax. The Board of Tax Appeals sustained the Commissioner.

The alleged profit came from a contract to sell a house. The petitioners in 1903 purchased a house in New York City...

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